CircleCI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CircleCI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring CircleCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CircleCI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 330 411
Rank change year-on-year +46 +81 +23
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 20 15 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.098% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.35% 0.81% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 42
10th Percentile - £513 £501
25th Percentile £431 £523 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -19.17% +11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £775
90th Percentile £660 £700 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

CircleCI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CircleCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CircleCI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CircleCI.

CircleCI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CircleCI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CircleCI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) GitHub
2 11 (55.00%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (45.00%) Azure
4 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
6 4 (20.00%) Sentry
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.00%) Apigee
8 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.00%) Firebase
9 1 (5.00%) IaaS
9 1 (5.00%) PaaS
9 1 (5.00%) SaaS
9 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (20.00%) Redis
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) Appium
3 4 (20.00%) Gatling
3 4 (20.00%) JMeter
3 4 (20.00%) NeoLoad
3 4 (20.00%) Selenium
3 4 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 3 (15.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) Git
6 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
6 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Developer in Test
4 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Node.js
2 5 (25.00%) Playwright
2 5 (25.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Django
3 4 (20.00%) Express.js
3 4 (20.00%) Play Framework
3 4 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (15.00%) RESTful
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth
6 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
6 1 (5.00%) Puppeteer
6 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Functional Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Logistics
7 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (20.00%) Pair Programming
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (25.00%) Ruby
6 4 (20.00%) C#
6 4 (20.00%) C++
6 4 (20.00%) PHP
6 4 (20.00%) Scala
7 3 (15.00%) Bash
8 1 (5.00%) Go
8 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Grafana
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Consul
5 1 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce